Beckie Denny

Beckie has spent her career solving the problem funders can’t quite name: why, even with genuine intent to fund good work, so much money ends up going to the wrong places. Her answer has always been the same — the sector lacks a shared language for impact, and without it, the best evidence rarely reaches the people making funding decisions.

As an impact evaluation specialist, she has built frameworks that work at national scale. Her evaluation system for the 1851 Trust was adopted by the UK Department for Transport as the national standard for their STEM programme. She founded The Charity Spark in 2019 — profitable from day one, with an international client portfolio that includes the Church of England and the Royal Horticultural Society — and has been named Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in both 2024 and 2025.

Before all of that, she had a career that bears no resemblance to a standard career trajectory: contributing writer on the Channel 4 series Skins, a commissioned film broadcast nationally as part of Channel 4’s 25th anniversary celebrations, officer training in the Royal Naval Reserve, and a Lead Projects Officer role at a Westminster policy think tank in her early twenties. She moves fast, operates at the level of the room she intends to lead, and has a track record of building things that get adopted beyond the organisation that commissioned them.

Beckie’s impact measurement tools — built independently in early 2025 — became the foundation of Raiser’s Impact Story™ and the Open Impact Standard. She formally joined the cap table in December 2025 when her IP merged into Raiser.

She is completing a theology degree for ordination, averaging first-class honours throughout. She lives in Hampshire.